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TIL that a skeleton from 7150 BC found in an English cave was a DNA match for a history teacher living nearby

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7rPOP TIL That the highest recorded blood alcohol content ever recorded was a polish man who had a BAC of 1.48. He got in a car crash but likely survived due to his drunkenness but later died due to the injuries of the crash
1keO TIL a 28 hairdresser woman locked a robber in her basement/utility room when he tried to rob her shop. She fed him Viagra and made him into a sex slave for 3 days.
nWvmW TIL Velcro is actually called hook and loop. Velcro is a name brand, like Kleenex.
9VJX TIL in Feb. 24, 1942, the US Military ordered a total black out of Los Angeles and fired 1,400 anti-air artillery and thousands of .50 caliber shots at a hovering object for 1 hour
yQo08 TIL before the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write essays about their characters. Watson turned in a 16 page essay, Radcliffe gave a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.